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United Nations: The United Nations can not send peacekeepers to Sudan's troubled Darfur region unless a political agreement is in place, a UN official said.
Jean-Marie Guehenno, UN undersecretary-general for peacekeeping, said a huge number of troops "which are not forthcoming" would be needed to patrol Darfur.
"When you try to apply peacekeeping to any situation and confuse peacekeeping with peace enforcement, you run very quickly into great difficulties," Guehenno said.
He said peacekeepers normally find some basis for law and order based on a political agreement and then "hit hard on anybody who doesn't really abide by the agreement."
Sudan's President Omar Hassan Al Bashir has so far rejected a UN force to absorb 7,000 African Union troops and monitors in Darfur.
More than 200,000 people have been killed and some 2.5 million driven out of their homes in fighting between pro-government militia and rebels.
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